A gangster considered to be one of the U.K.'s most dangerous men has been organizing criminal activities and threatening his enemies from the prison where he is serving a 35-year sentence, using an account on Facebook.

There are few bank robbers more infamous than John Dillinger who was shot dead by FBI agents in 1934. A pistol that had once belonged to him sold at auction for almost $100,000. Read all about this odd purchase by a private collector in Los Angeles.

Several retired federal drug enforcement agents have decided to sue NBC Universal because "American Gangster" had falsely made these DEA's look like villains in the story of Frank Lucas played by Denzel Washington.

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A 96-year-old mobster pleaded guilty Wednesday to overseeing robberies and other crimes for the Genovese crime family, but the man who needed a cane and had trouble hearing in court likely will avoid prison because of his age.